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think about it a while
now, I hope I'm not the only one who instantly thought "paradoxen"...
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pete
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my roommate says its paradoxes (pronounced para-dox-EEse)
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plurals are fricking weird, overall.
box-boxes
ox-oxen
heh, you say, oh yeah! But consider:
fish-fishes
sheep-sheep
die-dice
index-indices
cherub-cherubim
sky-skies
sleep-sleeps
so the possible endings are
-en
-es
-ice
-ices
-im
-s
-ies
I may have missed some.
paradoxen
paradoxes
paradice
paradices
paradim
paradoxs
paradoxies
obbviously there *are* rules governing these things, but still..
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u24
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christ, i missed loads of great obscure ones...
paradren
paradeex
paradoca
paradata
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lmao. well, I've just managed to get my whole university banned from editing wikionary.
I vandalised paradox so that it said the plural was paradoxen. they banned me! after one infraction! and they didn't bother checking whether the IP address was shared or not! ha. christ, guys, take a joke will you? sheesh.
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I thought a pair a docks was already plural.
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dock 1 |däk| noun a structure extending alongshore or out from the shore into a body of water, to which boats may be moored : the gangplank was lowered to the dock. • an enclosed area of water in a port for the loading, unloading, and repair of ships. • ( docks) a group of such enclosed areas of water along with the wharves and buildings near them. • short for dry dock . • (also loading dock) a platform for loading or unloading trucks or freight trains. verb [ intrans. ] (of a ship) tie up at a dock, esp. in order to load or unload passengers or cargo : the ship docked at San Francisco. • [ trans. ] bring (a ship or boat) into such a place : the riverbank where the fur traders docked their boats. • (of a spacecraft) join with a space station or another spacecraft in space. • attach (a piece of equipment) to another : the user wants to dock a portable into a desktop computer. ORIGIN late Middle English : from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German docke, of unknown origin.dock 2 verb [ trans. ] (usu. be docked) deduct (something, esp. an amount of money) : their wages are docked for public displays of affection | [with two objs. ] he will be docked an hour's pay. • cut short (an animal's tail) : fifteen of the dogs had had their tails docked. • cut short the tail of (an animal) : the dog had been docked. noun the solid bony or fleshy part of an animal's tail, excluding the hair. • the stump left after a tail has been docked. ORIGIN late Middle English : perhaps related to Frisian dok ‘bunch, ball (of string, etc.)’ and German Docke ‘doll.’ The original noun sense was [the solid part of an animal's tail,] whence the verb sense [cut short (an animal's tail),] later generalized to [reduce, deduct.] dock 3 noun (usu. the dock) the enclosure in a criminal court where a defendant is placed. PHRASES in the dock (of a defendant) on trial in court. ORIGIN late 16th cent.: probably originally slang and related to Flemish dok ‘chicken coop, rabbit hutch,’ of unknown origin.dock 4 noun a coarse weed of temperate regions, with inconspicuous greenish or reddish flowers. The leaves are popularly used to relieve nettle stings. • Genus Rumex, family Polygonaceae.ORIGIN Old English docce, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch dialect dokke.
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A parody?
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yo sleep is not plural on the account that its a verb.
I think that it is paradoxes. The reason for all th different exceptions in english is because of the different origins of words, some germanic, some latin, some celtic, etc.
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yo sleep is not plural on the account that its a verb.
I think that it is paradoxes. The reason for all th different exceptions in english is because of the different origins of words, some germanic, some latin, some celtic, etc.
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I still think it is a parody.
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sameolme
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perhaps pairofdoxeny?
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sameolme
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though parody works when in a
semantic box.
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why, yes if you are a moron like me!
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